This song came out right in the middle of me doing year 11 musicianship at school. We had to do a comparison piece between a modern song mimicking/taking influence from older music, and I actually chose this, and Bohemian Rhapsody.
I can remember when they burst onto the scene seeing them on Fuse back in the day. I shrugged them off as too emo for me at the time, but enjoyed a couple songs.... then this album came out... instant forever fan here.
@@tamingshem12 Rock, Punk, Punk Rock, and Soft Rock, they all descended from the Blues, they're all similar in Genre. Still not sure which sub genre of Punk MCR is
Same but honestly it was perfect when I did hear it the first time in middle school everyone was going through fazes I was a normal person who loved what the emos was jamming 😂 all this songs even panic at the disco always playing at dances !
Still get the hairs standing up when I hear this tune, and have to revisit it erry now and then when I need a boost. The only shame is that their debut mainstream song was this, a masterpiece, and was damn near impossible to top.
@@qisjsjsiaiajw8ejmy sister just doesn't like his voice but I fckn know she likes the song because she's the reason I found it in the first place. Also she has crazy good taste in music: Danzig, The Smiths, The Cure, A-ha, Muse
I love watching people when they hear MCR for the first time. They usually go into it saying, “I don’t know. Not sure if it’ll be my thing.” Then by the end of the song, they’re like, “Whoa! That’s my shit!” It never fails to make me smile, and it always gives me that nostalgia of when I first heard MCR.
Same along with "Darlin' You'll be OK" I wrote that in all my notebooks during high school. This song and Hold on Till May by Pierce The Veil really helped through a lot of tough times.
Fun Fact: So there is a belief that when you die your favorite memory comes to you in your moment of death. That is what this video and song are about. He's remembering when his father took him into the city and brought him to the parade. I think it's an amazing version of that belief and My Chemical Romance brings it tenfold with a forceful and yet incredible lyrical and musical tribute.
you're partially right. a dying character with cancer known as "The Patient". The album tells the story of his apparent death, experiences in the afterlife, and subsequent reflections on his life. maybe in another song in the album shows his father taking him to the city to listen to the parade, but its definitely not what this song is about.
This entire album was so good for the year it was released the meanings behind the song. Famous Last Words was about the drummer leaving and Gerard wanting him back which he did come back.
@@jasonbuckley4118 In the album commentary Gerard says exactly what the other guy said, while the whole song isn’t about that, the entire imagery of the black parade is his favourite memory of his father taking him to the parade which now that memory is what takes him to death
@@darkraisprodigy3696 Well, it's actually about Mikey departing the band for quite a bit due to his depression and use of pills, and not to mention those things got heigtened when they stayed in a haunted mansion for the recording of the Black Parade.
The whole concept of the song and video, is a "patient" dying of cancer. He sees death in the form of a marching band escorting him into the afterlife.
@@H0P3LXSS that's the whole story behind the album. A patient dying of cancer sees death in the form of a marching band surrounded by figures such as "Fear," and "Regret", and "Mother War" who wears a Victorian dress and a gas mask.
I would highly recommend listening to the whole Black Parade album. The whole album is set with songs that flow into each other and form one complete song that tells the story of the "patient" who is the character shown here, dying from cancer, as he comes to grips with his own mortality. The entire album is amazing cover to cover.
I'm always so fascinated by the fact that every "generation" of middle and high schoolers have had a big interest in My Chemical Romance. Kids in 2020 love them just as much as the kids who loved em in 2004.
+AmyM& Beauty Oh thank goodness- there’s more of us! In so many MCR comment sections I feel like an outsider. 23 here and only got into MCR during my final year of high school, have been listening to them ever since. No shame, music that impacts you deeply ought to transcend age anyway.
I absolutely despised this song as a teenager. It wasn't until I was 25, about a month after my mom died, that i started to really like this song. I randomly heard it in a playlist and lost it at my son's soccer game.
Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) is one of my go to's for getting people into MCR despite the really silly name, especially if you can get it with the intro
His face when the song picks up … all of us the first time we heard this song! Love these videos and love your reactions. Thanks for all the amazing content. Love how genuine and open minded you are for new music!
Ohh come on dude lol this song and this band DEFINITELY AREN'T like the "anthem" for the entire genre!!! lol I'd honestly barely even consider MCR to be emo, they're more like indie pop rock or something like that.
@@poncho_x4410 the thing is, okay, they're not emo for sure. but plenty of kids (and not kids) who are emo for sure, have this as their national anthem of "emo-ness". so it doesn't matter the genre, it's still our national anthem (plus it is in large part emo)
Still an anthem for some adults going thru tough times. I was 35 when my pops passed away. I always thought the song was Koo (not much of an emo fan), but 1st time it came on the radio after he passed, I basically had a breakdown. Even now, 5 years later, near the anniversary of his death, it still brings tears to my eyes...
To me the first few times I heard this song I didn’t really pay much attention but when I at work and feeling down and listened to the lyrics I felt this on the another level the emotions it produced where overwhelming brought me to tears thinking about my my life and my father and all the things he’s taught me❤
To this day -- one of the most memorable concerts I've been to. Rise Against opened for MCR in Lincoln, NE at the Pershing Center. I will never forget this performance. Amazing performers.
If this was truly his 1st time seeing this then holy shit... it hit him just like it hits almost everyone. The energy in that song is off the hook, the lyrics actually inspire thoughts & feelings, and the change ups / layers are pretty much perfect. Thanks for posting your reaction.
I hated chemical romance back in their day, but it does remind of those better times... Kinda like Collective Soul, the music takes me back to a better era in my life even though I thought the music sucked.
The singer makes comic books for DC now and it was made into a Netflix series and it's dope af. The Umbrella Academy is crazy, can't wait for season 2.
Dude, I started wheezing when it got to the break down and he just grabbed the arm rests and started head boppin. It’s that exact same energy I felt when I first listened to this song and even now listening to it a million replays later
There's something about watching you react to one of my beloved songs that makes me remember the first time I heard it myself....this band played a crucial & pivotal role for me in my elementary & middle school days
How is that nuts? Led Zeppelin albums are still relevant after 40-50 years. Granted MCR are by no means Led Zeppelin level and never will be, but they still were popular enough to have lifelong fans. Not me personally, because this is the only song I like by them, but I can't deny how big they were.
See this is why you are my favorite “react” cuz even if it wasn’t a favorite, you respect the song and assess it like any other and still “pass” it when you recognize that it’s good. Plus your face when you get into a rift or chord is just priceless ❤️
Best reaction ever!!! I keep coming back to it. Such a powerful song!!! Didn’t even realize how great it was until recently and losing my mom. She always helped anyone who needed it even though she didn’t have much herself. We had two “adopted” brothers growing up just boys from a tough situation who needed a safe home and love. Blood does NOT make family! Anyway I carry this on now… “I’m not ashamed I’m gonna show my scars, leave a chair for all the broken, listen here because it’s who we are” ❤️
I saw this and I screamed. No joke. I LOVE My Chemical Romance, especially Welcome To The Black Parade, Helena, Famous Last Words, Na Na Na, Teenager, etc. You should try Sleeping With Sirens, maybe their song If You Can’t Hang, Do It Now Remember It Later, If I’m James Dean You’re Audrey Hepburn, Gold, or Kick Me.
@@kuroishiofficial yeah for sure, we all show him now Demolisher by Slaughter to Prevail, Lorna shore Immortal / Flesh coffin, infant annihilator. We need to do it slowly and carefully, we don't want to scare him.
this album is actually strongly influenced by queen. bohemian rapsody for example has also such transitions that lead the song in a completely different direction
@@Talex-vu4iu mindless self indulgence's "frenkinstein girls will seem very sexy" is an example, but yeah there are a lot of artists/ bands weren't influenced by queen
Not gonna lie watching someone hear some of these songs for the genuine first time and just loving it is the reason i subbbed and joined patreon. I love when people get introduced to music outside of the normal circle they listen too. I saw these guys waaaaaay back in the day live and they were PHENOMENAL. But you need to keep up doing these genuine reactions man. I know as someone who enjoys music in all genres its nice seeing other people appreciate more music that they've never heard. Keep doing you man
This song is one of the songs that made me want to start making music one day. It is just one of those songs that every time I listen I get chills and so much feelings/excitement. I deliberately won’t listen to it sometimes because it’s too much for my nervous system and depending on if I feel like being that affected or not I may or may not listen cause it gets me every time. I was so happy to see you were feeling it too! :)
I love watching your videos because you not only appreciate the lyrics but go crazy about the instruments. You truly appreciate music/songs as a whole and I love that.
MCR...ahhh! This whole album makes me emotional... composition on point...Way's voice... sublime...don't know what else to say. I'm just humbled to be alive to hear it!
Honestly, just do a whole album reaction. Each song fits better and better in the context of the whole album, which I believe is a modern masterpiece, to the likes of Queen's "A Night at the Opera" and Pink Floyd's "The Wall." The album is about a Cancer Patient, "The Patient," who is reflecting on his life and is contemplating what his afterlife is going to be like. The Whole Marching band thing is his biggest memory of going to see a Marching band as a kid, so that's how Death has come to greet him. It's a great, front-to-back album with a lot of different pacings, and an abundance of absolute energy packed rockers throughout.
Unpopular opinion : It's worth noting that this album is amazing, cover to cover, and would be their best had they not released the Danger Days concept album that somehow managed to be more mature than The Black Parade.
@@ScottLovenberg Besides the last part, That's a very popular opinion amongst fans. I very much enjoy Danger Days, but I don't feel that it is more "mature" per se. I feel that the concept and execution of TBP is their pinnacle, and that the content they are Handling, such as in the song "Cancer," is done very well. Almost every person I've seen listen to that song has some connection because they hit it so well and made it very relatable. I feel the whole concept of Death and the Afterlife in TBP is a far more adult and heavier topic to deal with; with the manner they carried "restrained" anger throughout the album from "The Patient's" life, and bring it all to an end in "Disenchanted" and "Famous Last Words" is the prime example of what I've been explaining thus far. The patient's acceptance of his fate displays their own maturity, as they show in their musicality, and their restraint of the whole angry rock/metal vibe they had carried in the majority of the Album. Again, I love Danger Days still, but I don't feel like it hits as "mature" in my opinion. I believe the musical style seemed too experimental and "pop-like" in several songs, to be truly considered as a mature album. I think that the whole "Protectionist" vibe they have in many songs such as "Save Yourself...." is a very mature concept, but It doesn't seem to carry as well and as heavy/relatable as the overall concepts in TBP. "Only Hope.." is in my mind, the most adult song on the list simply because it feels like a "shoot your shot" kind of message at the beginning, and rolls into a nice and sweet song about a relationship. For sake of conversation, we may not agree on which album Is sonically the best, primarily because we may have different tastes slightly, but I will stand by my point of TBP being the more Mature album, with sonically better execution and messaging. (Besides "sleep" because that is just a wall of sound, but that wall of sound is even deep by the patient's subconscious telling him to "Wake up" while being drowned out by the wall of sound.)
I AM SO HAPPY THAT U HAD THE SAME REACTIONS AS I HAVE EVERYTIME I LISTEN TO THIS SONG. THIS IS AMAZIIIING. Thank you for your reaction! I love your videos. x
I LOVE watching your reviews of rock like this.... this was the shit I was listening to in high school and to see you getting pumped and excited about these songs gets me pumped too!! It takes me back to the feeling when I first heard these songs. I LOVE watching and knowing what’s coming and how pumped you’re about to get!!!!
Aye this guy seems super chill, really like his attitude and open mindedness to genres of music he has never listened too! Great video man, keep it up!
he seems like a nice dude, but his reactions frustrate me. he doesn't seem to like rock, and skips through it alot, and doesn't really pay attention to lyrics. i keep criticising that not every song is meant to be HYPE...
